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Letter from Professor August Friedrich Pott to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank him for his letters and books that he sent. He writes about his research and the second volume of his Etymological Researches which has just gone to press. Handwritten, 3 sides, dated 16 October 1860.

Letter from Albrecht Weber to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which he concurs with Hodgson distress at seeing his collection in a corner of the library in Calcutta. He writes that the material he presented to the Institut de France in memory of Eugène Burnouf will be visited by the Russian expert, Dr Anton Schiefner. He relates that Professor Schott has not received a copy of Hodgson's work on Turanian languages. Handwritten, 3 sides, dated 24 April 1860.

Letter from August Schleicher to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank him for the linguistic and ethnological works which Hodgson had sent. Schleicher is preparing a comparative grammar of the "Indogeman languages". Handwritten, 2 sides, dated 1 July 1860.

Letter from Reinhold Rost to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank Hodgson for his insights on the Himalayan class of the Juramian languages. Rost discusses different language groups. He states that he will write to Professor Schiefner soon and will be happy to convey any message from Hodgson. Handwritten, 3 sides, dated 26 March 1861.

Letter from Robert Caldwell to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank him for his articles on the Himalayan languages though he has not yet had leisure to study them as they deserve. Hodgson's note puts Caldwell as the author of the Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian languages and Honorary Member of the Royal Asiatic Society. Handwritten, 2 sides, dated 8 December 1862. With accompanying envelope on which Hodgson notes that Caldwell thinks the analyses were good.

Letter from Institut de France to Brian Houghton Hodgson to inform Hodgson that his gift to the institute in 1857 has been beneficial to research and how highly it is esteemed. Handwritten in French with printed letterhead, 2 sides, dated 15 April 1864.

Letter from Thomas Alcock, Manchester Natural History Society, to thank Hodgson for his donation of his catalogue of animals of Nepal. Handwritten, with printed letterhead, 1 side, dated 5 April 1865.

"Areopagitica, a speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England, Published 1644". Extract from the Speech, paragraph 61. Handwritten, 3 sides, undated.

News cutting from the Athenaeum for December 1868 about the controversy over Hodgson and how it seems he is better known in France than England. Printed material, 1 side, dated December 1868.

Letter from W.S.W. Vaux, Assistant Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to Brian Houghton Hodgson to inform that he had been elected Vice-President of the Society. Handwritten with printed letterhead, 1 side dated 8 June 1876.